treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
They were put to rest by some of the baddest Mutha truckers on this planet????????
OH Sandy (storm chasers update)
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They were put to rest by some of the baddest Mutha truckers on this planet????????
Toddppm
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This area is on top of large hill too, lots of ancient river rock around there too.
All of these trees were Pre-Murphed?
treemandan
Tree Freak
Aside from Murph's locust they are all oak trees.
ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
I see one that can be done no crane granted crane would be easier but I have done many half uproots no crane.
ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
Well actually a drift check can be performed periodically in both booms in around one hour and without loading the boom overnight
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Yeah, but I am not coming in an hour early to sit in the bucket with a cup of coffee and an I-Pad!
Jeff :msp_biggrin:
Jeff :msp_biggrin:
ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
Hahahah I'll speak with your boss get him to line you out :hmm3grin2orange: No; what I meant was teach the operators to do a monthly and always fly from lower controls in am before manning the basket! Anyway; it was the way I was taught but can't say I always conformed exact monthly dates. I did drift check and grease and inspect my equipment on a regular basis!
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LOL, for those of you in Rio Linda, You operate the bucket from the platform before hopping in,,, Good one, Rope!
Jeff
ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
LOL, for those of you in Rio Linda, You operate the bucket from the platform before hopping in,,, Good one, Rope!
Jeff
Yes I do lol my bucket is as old as myself and it flys better after pre-warming the fluid at lower controls but it's also standard operating procedure for aerial lift operation. I figure maybe thats why some companies keep them in the air stressing the load lines and seals all night lmfao to make their operators do a pre-flight!
I did a pre-flight almost consistently because many early big o trucks had defective drive cable ends causing failure and death. Inspecting the wire rope was at least a weekly pastime of mine and inspection saved my life once at different company! Not drive cable but actually the mounting to the truck was poorly performed and was set to fail in very short term, I was lucky to catch it, very, very lucky! I was also extremely mad that a truck was sent out to me mounted so haphazardly!
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treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
Just for ####s and giggles I left my upper erect last night , when I got in this morning it was down and it was smoking a cigarette ! Is that bad ???? :hmm3grin2orange:
Mapleman
ArboristSite Operative
blast from the past...
maple man here after a three year absence...enjoying this thread...just got back from central jerksey...may head off to conneticutt or long island next...here's a short summary of what i saw in jerksey:
many homeowners are still waiting to hear from adjusters even though a tree is on or through the roof and will cause more structural damage the longer it sits there and water damage when it starts to rain...also even if a tree is directly over and inches from the roof and will come down in the next breeze causing the insurance co much more $$$ than the tree removal, they will not pay to have it removed...never figured that one out...
i went down solo so had to contract out...did a couple of crane jobs for a guy where he cleared about 45 for the day and paid me 400 and later tried to beat me for twenty five bucks...needless to say i'm back home in vt fielding calls from other tree cos...
apparently in new jerksey the insurance cos can up your deductible from 500 to 2500 or even a percentage of the accessed value of your home if the damage is from a "declared" hurricane...never heard that one before and i've worked canes from tallahassee kate in 85 to ivan in pensacola in 04...hugo was a mother of a storm and makes sandy look like a mousey girl scout in pigtails, that is unless you lived at the coast and sandy floated your house away...
saw the pics here of uprooted trees...did not see a lot of broken tops or damage to standing trees while in jerksey...mostly leaners on roofs or still in the air, and broken leaders and tops on buildings...saturated sandy soil, no pun intended, will cause trees to fall, with or without leaves, even in a category one cane...nice to have a crane on big oak leaners, especially when there's no other trees to rig out of...building a deadman a few feet out from the rootball is a possibility as is using something like an excavator depending on tree size...also, if the rootball is huge and largely intact and the lean is not overly severe, even large oaks will raise up a bit...i did a spruce a few days ago that i actually pushed up and away from the roof once the top and limbs were off...granted, i wouldn't have been able to do that to an oak...
okay gotta go...i just got a call from a "tree guy" down in central jerksey who just lost his climber and sounds like he does tree work with a weed whacker...
maple man here after a three year absence...enjoying this thread...just got back from central jerksey...may head off to conneticutt or long island next...here's a short summary of what i saw in jerksey:
many homeowners are still waiting to hear from adjusters even though a tree is on or through the roof and will cause more structural damage the longer it sits there and water damage when it starts to rain...also even if a tree is directly over and inches from the roof and will come down in the next breeze causing the insurance co much more $$$ than the tree removal, they will not pay to have it removed...never figured that one out...
i went down solo so had to contract out...did a couple of crane jobs for a guy where he cleared about 45 for the day and paid me 400 and later tried to beat me for twenty five bucks...needless to say i'm back home in vt fielding calls from other tree cos...
apparently in new jerksey the insurance cos can up your deductible from 500 to 2500 or even a percentage of the accessed value of your home if the damage is from a "declared" hurricane...never heard that one before and i've worked canes from tallahassee kate in 85 to ivan in pensacola in 04...hugo was a mother of a storm and makes sandy look like a mousey girl scout in pigtails, that is unless you lived at the coast and sandy floated your house away...
saw the pics here of uprooted trees...did not see a lot of broken tops or damage to standing trees while in jerksey...mostly leaners on roofs or still in the air, and broken leaders and tops on buildings...saturated sandy soil, no pun intended, will cause trees to fall, with or without leaves, even in a category one cane...nice to have a crane on big oak leaners, especially when there's no other trees to rig out of...building a deadman a few feet out from the rootball is a possibility as is using something like an excavator depending on tree size...also, if the rootball is huge and largely intact and the lean is not overly severe, even large oaks will raise up a bit...i did a spruce a few days ago that i actually pushed up and away from the roof once the top and limbs were off...granted, i wouldn't have been able to do that to an oak...
okay gotta go...i just got a call from a "tree guy" down in central jerksey who just lost his climber and sounds like he does tree work with a weed whacker...
VA-Sawyer
Addicted to ArboristSite
Rope,
Better you than most others........ at least you found it BEFORE someone got dead. Keep checking that gear.
Rick
mr. holden wood
ArboristSite Guru
Ha ha ha ha "Jerksey", hope ya take another three years off ya d-bag.
millbilly
ArboristSite Guru
I hate storm work. People are never happy, and they think they are getting gouged. What I really hated the most, was getting the go ahead and 3 hours later they call and say they have a found a friend to do it for them. I go by the job on the way in, and its someone with a pickup and a 16 foot trailer with brush stacked up with poles cut from the tree. One of my customers called them roving gangs knocking on doors.
Thanks for listening to my rant. Here are a few pics that I wish these roving gangs would have attempted.
Thanks for listening to my rant. Here are a few pics that I wish these roving gangs would have attempted.
treemandan
Tree Freak
Right on! That is why I passed on that oak I posted, it was not a regular customer.
I can tell by your stupid, ignorant, and aggressive attitude that you dis someone that you do not know. You are one of the biggest D-Bags here and probably one of the reason's not many come here or post much.
Mapleman is a Legend, and you are ,,,,,,,,,,,,
Jeff
KenJax Tree
Terraphobic
Both of my kids are vaccinated as are all the other kids in the family and are prefectly fine.
Mapleman
ArboristSite Operative
was that d as in dirt or d as in douch?
hey jeff, i heard guido was back from the dead, maybe he or geena needs to pay mr. wood a visit and yank his topknot a bit...my apologies to mr. wood for any hurt feelings my post may have caused him...here in vermont we have a bit of fun with new jerksey tourists, especially the ones who come up here and think we're a bunch of hillbillies...we're actually woodchucks...
hey jeff, i heard guido was back from the dead, maybe he or geena needs to pay mr. wood a visit and yank his topknot a bit...my apologies to mr. wood for any hurt feelings my post may have caused him...here in vermont we have a bit of fun with new jerksey tourists, especially the ones who come up here and think we're a bunch of hillbillies...we're actually woodchucks...
treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
Not all the guys in jersey are jerkoffs , there's a lot of guys here working and getting help from locals , real jerkoffs would slash your tires and beat your head with a bat , and believe that the flip side of many coins , not here and not now though we have been showing a lot of guys around here all our spots and wishing them luck along the way .
Gonna bump Guido's Last Hurrah for the newb's!
Jeff
http://www.arboristsite.com/commercial-tree-care-climbing/98183.htm
Enjoy,,,,,,,,,,,
